Toy savings-bank.



No. 668,579. Pfented Feb. |9|9o|.

A. KAUFMAN/ '.TOY SAVINGS BANK.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

AARON KAUFMAN, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR TO BAUM- GARTEN AND COMPANY, OF SAME PLAGE.

TOY SAVINGS-BAN K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 668,579, dated February 19. 1901. Application filed May 25, 1900. Serial No. 17,948. (No model.)

To ctZZ wil/ont t may concern:

Be it. known that I, AARON KAUFMAN, a citi- Zen of theUnited States,residing at Baltimore, State of Maryland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Savings- Banks, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to toy savings-banks; and its object is to provide abank of this character embodying simple and durable mechanism for exhibiting at a suitably-disposed sightopening a fortune telling legend at every insertion of a coin, thereby alording amusement and encouragingahabitofsaving.

The invention consists in certain constructions, arrangements, and combinations of the parts, which I shall hereinafter fully describe and claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis afront elevation of my improved savings-bank. Fig. 2 is a vertical section thereof, showing the interior mechanism in elevation. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken approximately onI the line 3 3 of'Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section on the line i 4 of Fig. 2, showing the relative position of the chute-slides when they have been swung to operate the exhibitingwheel; and Fig. 5 is a plan view of a portion of the savings-bank illustrating the manner of inserting the two slides which form the coin-chute.

The improved savingsbank is provided with a casing, which may be of any suitable forno and material, but which, as illustrated, is preferably a rectangular box A, comprising a top ct, ,bottom b, and three sides c, all of cast metal. The top and bottom are formed with flanges d d', which take over the edges of the sides c, whereby to retain the latter in place. A vertical connecting-bolt e has a lower screwthreaded end e working in a threaded socket f on the bottom b, and a screw-head e2 on the bolt engages the top a, so as to hold the parts of the box rigidly together. To one side c of the box is a door B, having a suitable lock g and a glass-covered sight-opening h, through which to view the fortune-telling wheel, hereinafter described.

In the top a of the box A` and at one side edge thereof is formed a slot t, having one end open, through which the slides C and D of the chute are inserted. The adjacent side c of the box has a lug c, whereby the end of the slot is closed and the chute-slides retained in place. As shown in Fig. 5, the chute-slide Gis formed with parallel guide-fiangesj along its sides, which provide a space 7c between them for the coin to pass. A transverse ribl is formed on the outer face of this slide and which rests upon the top a of the box, so as to support the slide and prevent it from slipping down into the box, and swells or ears m project laterally from the edges of said slide C some distance below the said rib and prevent the vertical withdrawal of the slide. The other chute-slide D, as shown in Figs. 3 and 4, is formed on its rear face with parallel spaced-apart transverse ribs n n', which receive between them the top a at the edge ot' the slot t opposite that edge on which the rib Z of the slide C rests, and the lower rib n' is dat on its upper surface and relatively broad and closely engages the under surface of the top a, so that while the slide D when in normal position with the slide C can swing forward it cannot swing backward of the toothed actuating-wheel. At its upper end the slide D has a thu rnb-piece o, which normally projects some distance above the upper end of the slide C. The two slides O and D together form the chute, the slide D engaging the two guide-flanges and extending across the space or passage 7c. Both the said slides are loosely mounted in the top a and are free to swing in a vertical plane when a person presses on the thumb-piece o, and the slide C is also free to move up and down a distance equal to the space between its transverse rib Z and ears m should two coins become accidentally wedged between the slides.

On opposite sides c of the box bearings p are formed, and journaled in said bearings is Ya horizontal rotary shaft q. Near one end of the shaft is mounted an exhibiting device in the form of a polygonal wheel E, having numerous faces fr, each of which contains a different fortune telling or amusing legend adapted to appear, one at a time, at the sightopening h after the wheel has been rotated and has come to rest. In order to rotate this Ioo wheel E, I mount on the rotary shaft g' a toothed actuatingwheel F. This toothed wheel is located with its axis, which is the rotary shaft q, slightly to one side of the normal position of the lower ends of the chuteslides C D and with its periphery spaced from such lower ends a distance less than the diameter of the smallest coin which it is desired to placein the bank. A gravity-detent'- t, pivotallyconnected to one side of the box A, has abeveled free end t', which normally engages the teeth of said wheel F and prevents its backward rotation.

In practical operation a coin is inserted in the mouth or top end of the chtite and drops down to the lower end thereof and rests between two teeth of the wheel F; but its weight does notturn said wheel. The coin connects the chtite with the wheel F, and when the thumb-piece o is manually pushed so as to swing the lower end of the chute and coin in a direction away from the detent t the wheel F will be actuated and cause the rotation of the shaft q and polygonal wheel E, The lower en d of the chute will take the position shown in Fig. 4f, andthe coin will become disengaged from the wheel F and drop to the bottom of the box. As the chute swings its two parts C D slide on each other, and when the chute has been swung to its full extent, as in Fig. i, for the purpose of operating the toothed wheel the lower ends of the two parts C D will project unevenly, and thereby facilitate the dropping out of the coin.

The extent of rotation of the wheel E is of course dependent upon the force exerted upon the thumb-pieoe o, and this rotation will vary sufficiently to present a different legend at the sight-opening 7L nearly every time a coin is inserted.

G designates a partition in the box A to prevent the coins from interfering with the wheel E.

While I have described my device as a toy savings-bank, it is obvious that it may be used for other purposes.

Having thus described my invention,what l claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. ln a device ot' the character described, the combination of au inclosing case; arotary exhibiting device within the case; a toothed wheel arranged to rotate with said exhibiting device; and a coin-chute mounted in the top of the case to swing with its lower end terminating above the said toothed wheel a distance less than the diameter ot' a coin, and provided at its upper end above the case with athutnb-piece,wherebythe coin,dropped into said chtite, will operatively connect the latter with said toothed wheel.

2. In a device of the character described, thecombination of a rotaryexhibitingl device; a toothed wheel arranged to rotate with said exhibiting device; a coin-chute mounted to swing with its lower end terminating above the said toothed wheel a distance less than the diameter of a coin; and a detent normally engaging said toothed wheel.

A device of the character described,com prising a casing; a rotary shaft ionrnaled in said casing; au exhibi ting-wheel and a toothed wheel mounted on said shaft; a coin-chute composed of two independent slides fitted in the top of the casing and adapted to swing in a vertical plane with their lower ends terminating above the said toothed wheel a distance less than the diameter of a coin; and a gravity-detent resting on said toothed wheel.

4. In a device of the character described provided with a casing, a coin-chute comprising` independently-movable slides inserted through the top of the casing, one of said slides formed with a transverse rib on its rear face adapted to rest on said casing-top, and laterallyprojecting ears below said riband the other slide formed with spaced apart transverse ribs adapted to receive between them the top ofthe casing, and a thumb-piece at the npper end extending above the tirstnamed slide.

In testimony whereof l affix my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

AARON KAUFMAN.

iVitnesses:

CHARLES B. MANN, .l r., CHARLES L. VIETscH. 

